Chishtī

Mu'in al-Din Chishti brought the Chishti order to Ajmer in northern India, where he died in 1236. His tomb became a place of pilgrimage, while the teaching of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi helped the order spread across the subcontinent.

From the fourteenth century, rulers of the Delhi and Bengal sultanates patronized Chishti shrines. The Mughal emperor Akbar visited Mu'in al-Din's tomb after his victory at Chittorgarh in 1568.